Bottie-seaung machine



(No Mo'del.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. E. V. CLEMENS. BOTTLE SEALING MACHINE.

No. 533,115. Patented Jam 29, 1895.

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BOTTLE SBALING MACHINE. No. 533,115. Patented Jan. 29, 1895.

n @ay-.9, n 1f/@ga y H1@- INIIIlIIWMHHHN E Effiff/@l2 rares ERNEST V.CLEMENS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE DE LA VERGNE BOTTLE ANDSEAL COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE-SEALENG MACHINE.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,115, dated January29, 1895. yApplication filed .Tune 13,1892. Serial NoA 436,626. (Nomodel.)

.To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST V. CLEMENS, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, in the county and 5 State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBottle-Sealing Machines, of which the following is such a full, clear,concise, and exact description as will enable others skilled in the artto which my invention appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

The' invention relates more especially to 15 those corking machineswhich are designed for inserting seal-Stoppers. Such machines consist ofa standard, an operating-shaft, a plunger-head, and one or more plungerswith suitable actuating mechanism. In addition to these parts there isalso the head-piece having a throat through which the stopper is forcedand compressed into the bottle; Where the machines are operated bysteam-power the work of sealing or corking the bottles is 25 performedwith great rapidity, but there is more or less liability of injury tothe operator while feeding the seals into the throat beneath theplungers.

The principal objeotof the presentimprovements is to obviate theobjections heretofore existing in machines of this character, and theinvention consists 'in the construction of the feed attachment andfinger-guard mechanism,as hereinafter more fully described and pointedout in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an elevation partly in sectionof the upper part of the standard showing the operatingshaft, theplunger-head, the plunger-guides and throat-piece. As shown in thisfigure the parts are in position for a down stroke of the plungers. Fig.2 is a sectionalview taken on the line c, of Fig. 1, showing by apartial sectional plan, the feed-slide and linger-guard attachments.Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the plunger-guide and head-piece, and ofthe feedslide, the latter being in position to receive a seal. Fig. 4 isa sectional plan view on the line e, e', of Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and 6 areplan and 5o side views of the feedslide. Fig. 7 embraces a front, sideand rear view of the actuatingcam for` thefeed-slide. Fig. 8 is anenlarged plan and partial section on the line z', z, of Fig. 3, with thefeed-slide removed. Fig. 9 is aside view of the linger-guard; Fig. 10, afront view thereof; Fig. l1, a plan view of the same, and Fig. l2 asection on the line y, y, of Fig. 1l.

In the drawings A represents the operatingshaft for imparting motion tothe plungerhead, B, carrying the plungers Z7, which pass 6o through theplunger guide-piece C above the head-piece D, and a throat c forreceiving the seals. -The seals are fed to and forced by compressionthrough the throat cinto the bottles placed upon asuitable support notshown. The plunger guide-piece C and head-piece D are preferably made inone casting which for accessibility may be shaped to leave a spacebetween that portion which guides the plungers and the throat into whichthe seals are 7o fed. The finger-guard E is secured by screws (see Fig.8) to the plunger-guide and practically closes the space between thesame and the throat-piece. A feed-slide e, best shown by Figs. 5 and 6,extends directly above the 75 throat and back through agroove in theheadpiece. This feed-slide eis recessed or notched and provided with apin or lug e', projecting in the notched part. It is guided in a grooveor race-way of an actuating-cam, er. This act- 8o uating-cam is securedwithin a slot in the operating-shaft A and the feed-slide, e, extendsthrough and occupies a portion of the same slot, so that as its lug e',moves within the cam-groove a reciprocating motion is in1- 8 5 parted toit. The feed-slide e is provided with an aperture e2, large enough toreceive a stopper when its outer end is projected beyond thefinger-guard E which prevents the operator from getting his fingersunder the 9o plunger.

A seal is placed in the aperture of the feedslide when the plungers arein their upper position at which time the feed-slide projects beyond thethroat and the finger-guard as shown by Figs. 3 and 4. If a bottle isthen in place the machine is started, and, during the first part of thedownward movement ot' the operating-shaft, the actuating-cam draws thefeed-slide back to the position shown. by rco Figs. l and 2. The seal isthus brought directly over and in line with the throat, beneath theplungers before they have moved far enough down to come in contact withit. A continuation of the downstroke of the plungers forces andcompresses the seal through the throat and into the bottle beneath. Theoperating-shaft then moves upward, and, by the time the plungers havereceded from the throat and aperture of the feed-slide, the actuatingcam a, causes the lug c', to pass through its groove or race-way thusprojecting the feed-slide outward for receiving another seal. Thismovement is completed by the time the operating-shaft and plungers havereached their upmost position. The stoppered bottle is then removed,another one placed beneath the throat and another seal fed into theaperture of the slide and the operation of corking or sealing continued.

In steam-power sealing machines the action 0f the plungers is generallyintermittent, the operating-shaft usually being stopped at the end ofeach revolution or down and upstroke of the plungers; but even withmachines so constructed any inattention on the part of the operator or afailure of the clutch meehanism to work instantaneously renders themachine dangerous. It will be observed, however, that by a constructionand arrangement of the parts as described, feeding the machine becomesan expeditious matter while absolute protection is alorded againstaccident and injury to the operator. The improvements are alikeapplicable to steampower and foot-power machines, and to corkingmachines of various construction, but

their greatest utility seems to be in connection with machines of theclass shown.

I-Iaving thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a corking-machine the combination of an operating-shaft carryingone or more plunger-s, a feed-slide provided with a lug, anactuating-cam secured to the operating-shaft, and having a groove forreceiving said lug and transmitting motion to said feed-slide.

2. In a corkng machine the combination of an operating-shaft carryingone or more plungers, a head-piece provided with athroat for a stopper,a Jfeed-slide adapted to move on or through the head-piece and having anaperture for a stopper and an actuating-cam having contact with saidfeed-slide, said cam being secured to the operating-shaft whereby areciprocating motion may be imparted to said feed-slide.

3. In a corking machine the combination of an operating-shaft carryingone or more plungers, a plunger-guide, a head-piece having a throat fora stopperbeneath the plungerguide, a finger-guard below theplunger-guide, a feed-slide having an aperture fora stopper and adaptedto move beneath the finger-guard and above the throat in the head-piece,and an actuating-cam secured to the operatingshaft and in contact withthe feed-slide whereby a reciprocating motion may be imparted to thesame.

ERNEST V. CLEMENS.

Witnesses:

GEO. RICHMOND, OWEN V. HUGHES.

